Books are envelopes for ideas...

Here are 19 things I thought were worth sharing:

1. Want to understand & explain a lot of stuff to people?
2. More reasons we shouldn’t ban books…
3. Look back at the top songs that got airplay when you were younger!
4. Speaking of music, here are some great tracks (love the interface!) to listen to when you are hard at work grading!
5. This site looks weird, but if you scroll down, you can enter the websites of publications that normally have paywalls. Have fun with your VIP access!
6. Love solving games & solving murders? Then try your hand at this!
7. Faith Ringgold was an American treasure but we are richer for the things that she left us all…
8. The Book Review’s Best Books Since 2000
9. Did you know that you could volunteer for The Library of Congress from your couch?
10. Want to travel to parks all over the world with just the click of a mouse? Keep on clicking “Browse” in the lower lefthand corner, and enjoy your travels!
11. David Byrne’s Reasons to Be Cheerful​ is a treasure! His team just launched a new project, Living Paradigms, “a series about how the cultural practices of others, past and present, can teach us how to prevent or solve problems.”
12. Find out more about this city we live in! The NYC Population FactFinder was recently updated to include 2018-2022 data. Lots of data & lots of rabbit holes to go down!
13. Recently, the New York Times came with their list of The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, and then they let their readers weigh in! How many of these wonderful books have you read?
14. Here’s ​a new way to teach American histo​ry that might help you & your students.
15. My annual suggestion that all ELA and Humanities teachers sign up for the free JSTOR Daily (that is really only sent out once a week). Filled with fascinating stories pulled from the vast JSTOR archives!
16. BookRadio is “a growing directory of over 20,000 free audio books in a range of languages. Most of them are classics that are in the public domain, such as The Odyssey by Homer or Darwin’s Origin of Species.”
17. The Brooklyn Book Festival’s Festival Day & Literary Marketplace will happen on September 29th. Don’t miss it!
18. My annual reminder to sign up for the free Learning Network newsletter from the New York Times. Invaluable resources for you and your students!
19. Nine AI tools for back to school.